In its recent Schrems judgment the Luxembourg Court annulled Commission Decision 2000/520 according to which US data protection rules are sufficient to satisfy EU privacy rules regarding EU-US transfers of personal data, otherwise known as the ‘Safe Harbour’ framework. What does this judgment mean and what are its implications for EU-US data transfers?

The following report presents the conception and realisation of short video interviews with various stakeholders on their perceptions on societal security, future security threats and key actors in addressing these threats.

This article describes the modes of interaction of the different domains concerned with societal security (social and human science researcher, technology developer, security technology end-user, security policy-maker and civil society organizations) and identifies obstacles and barriers which could hinder a successful interaction and cooperation of these actors to enhance societal security.

This deliverable presents the tool kit for the SOURCE societal security survey to be conducted in five consecutive waves in WP3. Security is regarded as consisting of many dimensions and the more so when it is qualified as “societal” security. The SOURCE societal security survey is designed as work in progress, i.e. each annual wave will be used to improve the tool as it stands. This deliverable represents the state of play at the outset of the first wave.

This Report identified both a list of obstacles to as well as general recommendations for successful knowledge sharing between the different sectors concerned with societal security and developed a set of tools and methods to overcome experienced difficulties in the interaction, to stimulate discussions and to improve the mutual understanding of the future SOURCE network of excellence.